In her first book in over 10 years, Pia Mellodyauthor of the groundbreaking bestsellers Facing Codependence and Facing Love Addictionshares her profound wisdom on what it takes to sustain true intimacy and trusting love in our most vital relationships.Drawing on more than 20 years' experience as a counsellor at the renowned Meadows Treatment Centre in Arizona, Mellody now shares what she has learned about why intimate relationships falterand what makes them work. Using the most uptodate research and reallife examples, including her own compelling personal journey, Mellody provides readers with profoundly insightful and practical ground rules for relationships that achieve and maintain joyous intimacy.This invaluable resource helps diagnose the causes of faulty relationshipsmany of them rooted in childhoodand provides tools for readers to heal themselves, enabling them to establish and maintain healthy relationships.